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Tension and blasphemy

Kurdish authorities arrest magazine editor to appease Islamists

Published on 16 May 2012Read

Sad date

Tribute to Sardasht Osman on second anniversary of his murder

Published on 4 May 2012Read

Editor held illegally for six days because of corruption coverage

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the way Sherwan Sherwani, the editor of a monthly based in Dohuk, in the far north of Iraq’s autonomous (...)

Published on 27 April 2012 Read

Media freedom under threat from all sides

In the light of the Information Technology Crimes law before the Iraqi parliament, and the proliferation of attacks on journalists in recent (...)

Published on 12 April 2012 Read

Car bomb kills TV presenter in Tikrit

Reporters Without Borders condemns Salahaddin TV presenter Kamiran Salaheddin’s murder last night in the centre of Tikrit (170 km north of (...)

Published on 3 April 2012 Read

Black December for media freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns a wave of media freedom violations in Iraqi Kurdistan during December, especially a series of arrests (...)

Published on 3 January 2012 Read

News media torched, journalists attacked and arrested in outbreak of violence

Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence in the past three days in Iraqi Kurdistan in which media premises have been torched and (...)

Published on 5 December 2011 Read

New wave of abuses and intimidation against journalists

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the persecution by the Iraqi authorities of the radio station Al-Sada, the only independent (...)

Published on 29 October 2011 Read

Attacks and acts of intimidation against journalists

Reporters Without Borders continues to be concerned about the dangers for journalists in Iraq, where there have been series of attacks and acts (...)

Published on 21 October 2011 Read

Well-known irreverent journalist shot dead in his home

Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the well-known journalist Hadi Al-Mahdi’s murder in Baghdad today, on the eve of nationwide protests (...)

Published on 8 September 2011 Read

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Yemen - 22 May 2012

Open letter from Reporters Without Borders to the Yemeni president

Azerbaijan - 22 May 2012

Two Azerbaijani writers missing in Iran

Israel - 21 May 2012

Israeli troops arrest head of Palestinian Prisoner Channel

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Petition for the release of media workers held hostage in Iraq

At least 77 journalists and media assistants have been kidnapped in Iraq since March 2003. Twenty-three of them have been murdered, 40 have been released and 13 are still being held by their abductors.

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